John William Trevan

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John William Trevan (born July 23, 1887 in Bodmin , Cornwall , † October 13, 1956 ) was a British pharmacologist .

Trevan introduced the term lethal dose in 1927 . He was elected to the Royal Society in 1946.

literature

  • JH Gaddum: John William Trevan. 1887-1956 . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society , Vol. 3, 1957, pp. 273-288, JSTOR 769366 , ( PDF ).

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Individual evidence

  1. JW Trevan: The Error of Determination of Toxicity . In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London . Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character . tape 101 , no. 712 , 1927, pp. 483514 , doi : 10.1098 / rspb.1927.0030 .